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GRISLEA tomentosa. 

 Doicny-lcavcd Grislea. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYXLL 



GRISLEA. (Flores polypetali.) Cal. tubuloso-campanulatus 4-(fi) 

 dentatus coloratus persistens. Pet. 4 (G) niinutissiitiu. Slam, longissima 

 ascendentia; anth. subrotundae. Caps, globosa substipitata, calvce 

 brevior 1-loc. polysperma receptaculo magno. Frulex rtunis parallelis 

 vimineu'j folia disticha; fores in corymbis axi/laribus confertis oppositis 

 seauidi, sursumjlexi. Jussieu. gen. 331. (Char, ad (Jrisleam secun- 

 dum solam confectus.) Interdum additurforis partibus. 



G. tomentosa, foliis sessilibus subtus tomentosis corymbis (cymis) axilla- 

 ribus patuiis. Willd. sp. pL 2. 30.1. 



Grislea tomentosa. Hoxb. corom. 1. 29. t. 31. Hurt. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 



347. 

 Woodfordia floribunda. Salisb. Parad. Lond. 42. 



Ly thrum fruticosum. Lin. sp. pi. 1.641. Andrcrcs 7 s reposit. 467. 



Frutex ramosus, credits : rami villosi, bifariam Jbliosi. Folia opposita, 

 cordato-lanceolata, interstitiis longiora, divaricata, obscure viridia, venosa, 

 subtus tomentosa, subsessilia petiolo fere obsolete, c 2-uncialia, \ partes uncicz 

 lata. Flores cymosi, miniato-coccinei : pedunculi 5-15fori, in foliis supernis 

 axillares, sol itarii, folio breviores ; pedicelli calyxque villosiusculi. Cal. cla- 

 vato-tubulosus, semuncialis, subassurgens, ore fundi nectar feri extiis annulato- 

 protuberans, 6-multifdus, ad furcam cujusque divisurce notatus tubercido 

 sphacelato nervum externe terminante et basi petali membranacei parvi lanceo- 

 lati corollae 6-mullipetalce opposito. Stam. 8-20, nncialia, cequalia, assur- 

 gentia, fundo nectarifero adnata : anth. 2-loculares, orbicufatce, peltato- 

 incumbentes. Germ, sessile, elongate oblongum, tcretiuscidum ; stylus erectus 9 



lamentis 2-3-plo crassior ; stig. simplex. 



In point of ornament, this shrub seems to us in some sort 

 to fill in the hothouse, the same place that the Fuchsia 

 coccinea does in the other departments of the garden. 



Native of the hills and valleys of the northern provinces 

 of the Carnatic, where it flowers during the cold and at the 

 beginning of the hot season ; with us from April to May. 

 The calyx is of a bright scarlet colour, permanent, and 

 serves as a covering to the seed-vessel, by which the beauty 

 of the plant is considerably prolonged in India; but here 

 the seed is seldom perfected, and the calyx decays sooner. 

 Dr. Roxburgh tells us, that its appellation in the Telinga 

 dialect is Scringie, and that he does not know any use that 

 is made of any part of the shrub. 



